Portable hygenic apparatus

Abstract

The portable apparatus comprises an elongated body adapted to be mounted on a toilet seat and including a stem terminated by an upwardly-directed nozzle adapted to be located in the center of a toilet bowl and below the rim thereof. A clamp is releasably secured to the toilet seat. A spring-biased pin connects the body to the clamp while allowing pivotal and longitudinal movement of the body with respect to the clamp. A handle carried by the body enables the user, while seated on the toilet seat, with the apparatus between the user's legs, to pull the body upwardly and adjust its longitudinal and pivotal positions with respect to the clamp and, consequently, the nozzle can be adjusted both in orientation and in back-and-forth position with respect to the seated user. A blocking device maintains the body in adjusted position upon release of the handle. The apparatus further includes a bottle for containing a liquid refresher or a medicament to be mixed with the water. Two diverter valves are provided for discharging the water from the faucet directly into the sink or into the toilet bowl when the nozzle and bottle are not used. A cannula can be attached to the nozzle through a flexible nipple.

We claim: 
     
       1. A portable hygienic apparatus comprising an elongated body having a first and a second end, a nozzle carried by said first end, a water inlet port at said second end, a handle portion formed on said body, releasable clamping means adapted to be releasably clamped to a toilet seat, means for mounting said body on said releasable clamping means, said means for mounting allowing upward separating movement of said body from said clamping means so as to allow pivotal and longitudinal movements of said body relative to said clamping means, said means for mounting including spring means biasing said body downwardly towards said clamping means and releasable blocking means blocking, under the bias of said spring means, said body to said clamping means in adjusted pivoted and longitudinal positions relative to said clamping means, said blocking means being releasable by manually pulling said body away from said clamping means by grasping said handle to effect said separating movement against the bias of said spring means. 
     
     
       2. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said means for mounting includes a hollow block secured on top of said clamping means, said block defining a chamber and having a top wall provided with a longitudinal slot in communication with said chamber, an upstanding connector pin extending through said slot, a transverse retaining member fixed to the lower end of said pin and located in said chamber, said pin shiftable along said slot, the upper end of said pin pivotally connected to said body, said spring means acting on the upper end of said pin and on said body; and said blocking means including a pair of stacked lower and upper blocks surrounding said pin intermediate said body and said hollow block, said lower block and the top wall of said hollow block having mutually-abuttable planar frictional faces, the lower face of said upper block and the upper face of said lower block being mutually-abuttable and mating curved frictional faces, said upper block being secured to the underside of said body. 
     
     
       3. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 2, wherein said frictional faces are serrated faces with the serrations extending transverse to the longitudinal axis of said slot and parallel to the generatrix of said curved faces. 
     
     
       4. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said body includes a bottom and a top molded section made of synthetic resin, assembled together and forming a hollow body, said handle portion including laterally-opposite recesses made in the sides of said top section. 
     
     
       5. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said body includes a main portion overlying and astride said clamping means, and a downwardly-extending stem portion terminated by an upwardly-inclined end portion defining said first end and located substantially, centrally and below the rim of said toilet bowl when said body is clamped in operative position by said clamping means. 
     
     
       6. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 5, wherein said body is hollow, said handle portion including laterally-opposite recesses made in the sides of said main portion; and further including a first tubing extending within said body and connected to and establishing communication between said nozzle and said water inlet port. 
     
     
       7. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 6, further including a bottle releasably secured to and dependent from said body main portion intermediate said second end and said clamping means, and located externally of said toilet bowl, in the operative position of said apparatus, said bottle series connected between said water inlet port and said flexible tubing. 
     
     
       8. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 7, wherein said bottle includes an integral internal partition separating the bottle into two compartments, said partition having at least two vertically-spaced passages intercommunicating the two compartments. 
     
     
       9. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 7, further including a water outlet port in said stem portion, a manually-operated diverter valve carried by said main body portion above said bottle, said body water inlet port forming the inlet of said valve, said valve having a first and a second valve outlet port, said first valve outlet port directly communicating with said bottle, said second valve outlet port communicating with the outlet port of said stem portion through a second tubing. 
     
     
       10. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 9, wherein said diverter valve includes a rotary spool for selectively communicating said water inlet port with either one of said first and second valve outlet ports. 
     
     
       11. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 10, further including a faucet connector and a second diverter valve having a valve body with an inlet connected to said faucet connector and two outlets, one of said two outlets for discharging water out of said valve body and a flexible tubing connected to the other one of said two outlets and to said water inlet port of said body. 
     
     
       12. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 5, wherein said nozzle has a series of orifices and further including an obturator movably mounted on said nozzle for adjustably obturating said orifices. 
     
     
       13. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 12, further including a flexible discharge nipple fitted on said nozzle. 
     
     
       14. A portable apparatus as defined in claim 13, further including a cannula releasably attached to said nozzle through said nipple and orientable relative to said nozzle and body first end by flexing said nipple.